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• A Step-by-Step Guide to the Microsoft News Recommendation Competition | Towards Data Science — Walkthrough of NRMS algorithm and MIND competition submission process
• AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots 'glorified tape recorders' | CNN Business — Michio Kaku argues chatbots are limited and quantum computing is the true next stage
• AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed. — LLM benchmark scores are brittle, anthropomorphized, and often measure memorization not capability
• AI is already linked to layoffs in the industry that created it | CNN Business — AI driving tech sector layoffs and workforce skill reshuffling
• AMD CEO Lisa Su on AI and Nvidia: "I'm not a believer in moats — Lisa Su interview on AMD competing with Nvidia in AI chip market
• Can AI really be protected from text-based attacks? | TechCrunch — LLM prompt injection attacks are low-barrier and currently unpreventable
• ChatGPT and generative AI are booming, but the costs can be extraordinary — Compute economics of training and serving large language models
• Efficient transformers: Survey of recent work — Taxonomy and survey of efficient transformer architectures through 2022
• Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for computer science reform in schools — 600+ tech leaders urge K-12 US computer science curriculum expansion
• Friar Tech: The Vatican's top AI expert who advises Silicon Valley — Vatican Franciscan friar advising Pope Francis and Silicon Valley on AI ethics
• From Google To Nvidia, Tech Giants Have Hired Hackers To Break AI Models — AI red teams at major tech companies probing model vulnerabilities
• GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness — Curated list cataloguing harmful and unethical real-world AI deployments
• GitHub - recommenders-team/recommenders: Best Practices on Recommendation Systems — Microsoft open-source repository of recommendation algorithm best practices
• GitHub - recommenders-team/recommenders: Best Practices on Recommendation Systems — Microsoft open-source repository of recommendation algorithm best practices
• Graph Classification with Transformers — Tutorial fine-tuning Microsoft Graphormer for graph classification via HuggingFace Transformers
• Here are the layoff severance packages Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other tech giants have promised — Comparative severance terms across major 2023 tech-sector mass layoffs
• How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers (Published 2025) — AI is fundamentally rebuilding computing hardware, data centers, and energy systems
• I worked on Google's AI. My fears are coming true — Fired Google engineer warns LaMDA and Bing chatbots show sentient behavior
• IDEcline: How the world's most powerful coding tools became second-class citizens overnight — Three-wave shift from IDE-centric to agent-control-plane software development
• Memora scales agent memory to boost long-horizon productivity — Harmonic memory system decoupling storage and retrieval for long-horizon agents
• Microsoft Announces Azure ML, Cloud-based Machine Learning Platform That Can Predict Future Events | TechCrunch — Microsoft Azure ML cloud machine learning platform launch announcement 2014
• Microsoft Research – Emerging Technology, Computer, & Software Research — Microsoft Research lab overview covering AI and computing research areas
• Microsoft Solver Foundation 3.1 — Microsoft .NET library for mathematical optimization and simulation
• Microsoft announces a revolutionary keyboard designed for vibe coding! — April Fools satire mocking vibe coding via single-key Tab keyboard
• Microsoft for Python Developers Blog — Microsoft engineering blog covering Python tooling, VS Code, and mssql-python driver
• Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says | TechCrunch — Microsoft-OpenAI partnership fracturing over competing AI ambitions
• Models for integrating data science teams within organizations — Comparison of five data science team integration models within organizations
• New MIT Research Shows Spectacular Increase In White Collar Productivity From ChatGPT — MIT RCT finds ChatGPT makes white-collar workers 37% faster at writing tasks
• RAFT: Adapting Language Model to Domain Specific RAG — Fine-tuning recipe training LLMs to ignore distractor documents in domain RAG
• Sam Altman enters his power era — Sam Altman reinstated as OpenAI CEO after failed board ouster
• Team Aims To Use Raspberry Pi in Brown Bear Conservation Effort — BearID uses AI face recognition on Raspberry Pi to monitor brown bears
• Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000-a-year package with a mixture of anger and admiration — Tech worker sentiment on UPS Teamsters $170k total-compensation contract win
• The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession — Four distinct causes behind tech-sector recession amid broader economic strength
• The Reputational Risks of AI — Framework for diagnosing and responding to AI reputational failures
• Tsinghua U & Microsoft Propose Fastformer: An Additive Attention Based Transformer With Linear Complexity — Fastformer additive attention transformer achieves linear complexity for long documents
• Why I Left the .NET Framework · Jonathan Oliver — Developer critique of .NET ecosystem pitfalls motivating migration to Go
• msnews.github.io/assets/doc/introduction.md at master · msnews/msnews.github.io — MIND news recommendation dataset structure and collection methodology